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Stellar Astrophysics at Keele

Lead Research Organisation: Keele University
Department Name: Sch of Chemistry & Physics

Abstract

Our home is a planet orbiting a star. To understand our origins and place in the universe we need to understand how planets and stars form. Using a novel sky-survey instrument, which we are building in South Africa, we will search for planets around other stars. Using the latest and biggest telescopes and satellites we will study stellar nurseries where stars are born. We will investigate how they evolve, how they interact with each other, how they interact with their environment, and how they enrich interstellar space with the chemical ingredients from which a new generation of stars and planets will form, and from which, ultimately, we ourselves are made.

Publications

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Gillon M (2014) WASP-103 b: a new planet at the edge of tidal disruption in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Marchese E (2014) The variable ionized absorber in the Seyfert 2 Mrk 348 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Jordán A (2013) A GROUND-BASED OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM OF WASP-6b in The Astrophysical Journal

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Iro N (2013) On the heat redistribution of the hot transiting exoplanet WASP-18b in Icarus

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Indebetouw R (2013) ALMA RESOLVES 30 DORADUS: SUB-PARSEC MOLECULAR CLOUD STRUCTURE NEAR THE CLOSEST SUPER STAR CLUSTER in The Astrophysical Journal

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Maxted PF (2013) Multi-periodic pulsations of a stripped red-giant star in an eclipsing binary system. in Nature

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Tombesi F (2013) An outburst scenario for the X-ray spectral variability in 3C 111 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Pillitteri}, I. And {Wolk}, S.~J. And {Megeath}, S.~T. And {Allen}, L. And {Bally}, J. And {Gagn{\'e}}, M. And {Gutermuth}, R.~A. And {Hartman}, L. And {Micela}, G. And {Myers}, P. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Sciortino}, S. And {Walter}, F. And {Rebull}, L. And {Stauffer}, J. (2013) Erratum: ''An X-Rays Survey of the Young Stellar Population of the Lynds 1641 and Iota Orionis Regions'' (2013, ApJ, 768, 99) in \apj

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Meixner M (2013) THE HERschel INVENTORY OF THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS, A HERSCHEL OPEN TIME KEY PROGRAM in The Astronomical Journal

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Pignatari M (2013) PRODUCTION OF CARBON-RICH PRESOLAR GRAINS FROM MASSIVE STARS in The Astrophysical Journal

 
Description Lots and lots of them 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact We have particpated in dozens and dozens of such activites.

Lots. We have about dozens and dozens of such feedbacks.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014